Dry Cleaning Secret Love

Dry Cleaning return with Secret Love, their third studio album, produced by the ever-adventurous Cate Le Bon. On this release, the South London four-piece firmly claim their place within rock’s avant-garde, threading together the anxious edge of early ’80s US punk and hardcore with stoner rock weight, playful no wave textures, and moments of pastoral fingerpicking. The result is an album that feels tense yet oddly relaxed, cerebral yet instinctive.

Florence Shaw’s unmistakable spoken-word delivery remains central, meticulously calibrated to the band’s shifting soundscapes and placing her within a lineage that stretches from Laurie Anderson to Life Without Buildings’ Sue Tompkins. Cate Le Bon’s production brings a new openness and confidence to the record, sharpening the band’s dynamics while allowing space, humour, and restraint to coexist. Pressed on classic black re-vinyl, Secret Love captures Dry Cleaning at their most assured — subtle, unsettling, and quietly compelling.